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language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.

Ridiculous.

Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; - a term lighter than derision.

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.

Ridiculous.

Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; - a term lighter than derision.

Words, looks, or acts intended to cause contemptuous laughter; sarcasm; mockery; satire.

To treat or adress with mockery; make fun of, laugh at with contempt.

To laugh at: to expose to merriment: to deride: to mock.

Derisive merriment; mockery.

To mock; sneer at; jeer.

To make fun of; deride.

Contemptuous merriment; derision.

Contemptuous laughter, or that which provokes it; that species of writing which excites contempt with laughter.

To treat with ridicule; to deride; to expose to contempt or derision.

Remarks designed to excite laughter, with some degree of contempt; mockery; satirical remarks.

To treat with contemptuous merriment; to mock; to deride; to sneer at.

n. [Latin] The expression of laughter mingled with contempt; - contemptuous laughter; derision; - wit which provokes laughter; raillery; banter; - that species of writing which excites contempt with laughter; mickery; irony; gibe; jeer; sneer.